Comme back to the red motherland, com’rade.
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i love blood elves but im in rebel phase
tbh lore only comes after we see a cool thing. like whole demon hunter thing is just illidan fan club but they look rlly cool and they made entire reasons up for why they have these edgy tattoos and blindfolds. love it
Oh, this is rich coming from a a community which got so many things from Blizzard (first High Elves in WoW at all as Blood Elves, then their model on Alliance side, then non-void customizations) and still asks for more.
Do You understand that by the simple fact of introducing a playable race that’s explicitly called “High Elves” You are already taking from Blood Elves?
You put their currently unquestionable right to all pre-third war High Eleven legacy into question, by creating a playable race that by it’s very name is implied to have stronger right to it.
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But people are trying to make this a “lore reason” because of the W2 Ranger units which did have tattoos…but evidently, those rangers either washed off their face paint or it was retconned because by the time we meet the leader of those Rangers, Sylvanas Windrunner, their is no tattoo or ranger face painting.
im ngl this is 100% because they were lazy with the art lets be real
or rlly only alleria and her groupies were rebelious enough for tats
either way gief tattoos blizzard… sin’dorei ren’dorei quel’dorei idc how u wanna call it. give us justice.
Well if that was the case, why didn’t Auric Sunchaser have them or the Rangers at the Allerian Stronghold on Outland?
They spent time showcasing Blood Elf Runic facial tattoos and this was in TBC…not even Legion when they got to be Demon Hunters.
lazy like with blood elf face tats from BC box art
Or…simply not important.
As I say, tattoos are a cool cosemetic feature. They don’t need a lore backing and High Elf fans need to settle down with this idea and be more like me.
Tattoos aren’t making or breaking the High Elf or Blood Elf race.
In fact, tattoos seem to have gone more with the Night Elves/Nightborne and maybe that’s where Blizzard want to primarily keep them? If you want to play a Thalassian Elf with tattoos, you’ve got Blood Elf Demon Hunter.
Indeed, tattoos have always been more a Night Elf thing > Blood Elf thing anyway and I don’t think we need them for playable High Elves.
thats just cuz night elves are our vanilla elves
long have we suffered the injustice of tattoolessness.
id advocate for tattoos for more races but this is the quel’dorei thread so i will stick to blood elves and their recolours
Well no - it’s in the lore with Illidan and his Demon Hunters, with the Priestesses donning Elune-like tattoos and owl-body paintings, then we’ve got the Nightborne with arcane tattoos all over their bodies.
It’s never really been there for Thalassian Elves in general, which does make sense considering that after the Highborne Exile, the High Elves wanted as little to do with the Night Elves as possible.
I hope my fellow paladins and I will find and capture you before you fall into the void side.
Otherwise the inquisitorial interrogation will be more ̶d̶e̶a̶d̶f̶u̶l̶ painful
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but those they just made up cuz they looked cool aswell.
they made these hot elves for their art and gave them some tattoos. and then they write a book and say “wow night elf women honor the goddess with face tats, sometimes, for some reason”
Everything they did was just made up until they made it canon lore, which they primarily did for the Night Elves.
Maybe we should forget this whole “tattoo” thing because perhaps keeping tattoos primarily for Darnassian and Shalassian Elves keep them unique whilst Thalassian Elves maintain their more “Human-like” appearance.
agreed the points have been made
i just want to look like my best friend alleria (canon since k’aresh and u wont sway me otherwise)
one of the more unique ways ive been asked for drink
Drink it then you ll be excomunicado.
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None of the Elves use the tattoos right now with the exception of Alleria
So just because one person has a customisation it means it should be off limits? I don’t know, I think the Liadrin tiara looks kind of cool, but since none of the blood elves wear it like that except Liadrin…
I just don’t understand how when you bring up an example in lore, its written gospel, chapter and verse, but when I bring up an example in lore, it’s some throwaway outlier than can be safely ignored.
Your answer of garrisons is nonsensical and too much of a stretch. Garrisons are not player housing and even Blizzard knew they weren’t player housing. Everquest 2, TESO and FF14 has established what player housing was and what Blizzard was providing. Yet Blood Elves ARE High Elves.
You can call it nonsensical and far fetched as much as you like. The reality is that the garrisons was in response to a demand for housing, and it fell short, so Blizzard is trying again with the real deal. I don’t see how High Elves are any different.
Dont say anything,its not being discussed in good faith. in a properly moderated forums this would be griefing. Just ignore as I did, so much better.
I want to keep the conversation in focus. I want Blizzard to understand that there is a demand for playable high elves, and cannot be ignored.
I don’t care how many times the goalposts get moved.
But if there is a curious soul out there who reads our arguments and positivity and is also persuaded that World of Warcraft benefits from more choice, not less, then I will have done my job.
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Its just a matter of time. At the end you ll be exhausted to see this blueberry racial proc like 33% of time.
Remembering every time you re not a high elf but void demon.
+everytime you put your mouse over your character, reading the tooltip saying
Legolas
hunter 80
void elf
UwU Company
And observing year after year that… “no they wont add playable HE…”
“Haem… maybe… I can try… blood elf…”
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Yes, You keep saying that:
but when i asked:
I didn’t get any answer. So since You are saying that again, I ask again: how adding alliance affiliated High Elves to the game would be beneficial for Void Elf and Blood Elf development? Because as things stand now, I can only see a new Thalassian race taking something away from one or the other.
They already develop on their own and are a separate race and culture. What exactly would they gain by adding alliance affiliated High Elves to the game?
The reason I didnt’ answer your question was because so many people responded and I don’t want to clutter the thread with double posts.
Void Elves are former blood elves who are corrupted by void magic and have found their home in the alliance.
High Elves are descendants of the Highborne and have been with the alliance since Warcraft 2.
While the Void Elves have very void characteristic like tendrils on their hair, corrupted reverberating voices, and a lore that is about them studying the void, the High Elves are more standard, having a tradition of survivalism with their rangers and their affinity towards magic.
The addition of High Elves would allow people playing void elves to fully realise their niche, and perhaps ask for more voidy customisations (like tendrils, more skin tones that are unnatural and voidy) while High Elves will finally fill in that niche that a lot of players want